The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-12-10
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WHIST Ohio's Democratic Candidate for
Governor Thinks Of HIS Opponent.
The indictment which Mr.. Powell
drew up against Governor Foraker,
was . singing one. In it he said:
The Governor of OHIO should set an
example In his own conduct of loyalty
to established order aud good govern
ment Whenever, in public place or
speech, he refers to the President of
the United States, it should be with,
at least decent respect for the Chief
Magistrate of over sixty millions of
people and the highest elective Office
on earth. The President represents
the dignity of our Republic before the
other nations of the world His rep
utation should be as sacred to every
fair-minded citizen as his own. In de-
fiance of this sentiment Governor
Foraker. in a large convention, not
only claimed that President Cleveland
was lacking In courage of every kind
but made the express charge of
cowardice against him by comparing
him to q whipped spaniel Such
universal censure came at once from
private citizen and public press that
even the Governor FASTENED to Join
the majority and pass judgment of
condemnation on his own conduct.
With the swiftness of the telegraph he
sends an invitation to the President he
had insulted to hasten to Ohio, so we
could all unite in doing honor to his
distinguished presence The last l
heard President Cleveland had not
yet reached the Executive residence at
Columbus.
"Again, there are in Ohio at least
four hundred thousand Democratic
voters. They have done as much to
advance the credit standing and rep
utation of our State as was ever done
by the same number of people. In all
things which constitute good citizen
ship they have no superiors They
have right to expect at the hands of
their highest officials decent language
and fair treatment Yet in the same
State convention we find Governor
Foraker publicly proclaiming to the
world that when he was inaugurate
our party had not left enough cash
in the treasury to clean up the dirty
Democratic tobacco spit in the State
House 1t will not be necessary for
me to take exception to the fact of
Governor of four millions of people
entering the field and appropriating
the language of ward politics. His
own party has already done the work
of censure. His State executive COM
mittee is now circulating a second edi-
ton of that speech It has been both
revised and reformed. All such ele-
giant language and choice expressions
Is dirty Democrats have been care
fully eliminated"
In closing his remarks Mr.. Powell
said: "What the people of Ohio now
most require is Governor who will
gite more attention to their own at
fairs than to imaginary troubles in
Georgia; who, instead of travelling to
and fro on the earth, preaching a
crusade of hate and luminosity against
the South. will give attention to the
affairs Of his own Office, establish
and keep business hours, and demand
and enforce such economy in the sever
al branches of government that our
expenses and appropriations shall at
least be kept within our revenues in
stead of exceeding them from half to
a million dollars annually"
The effect of Powell's arraignment
of Foraker's bloody-shirtism and sem
sationalism was instantaneous, and it
has been very generally conceded that
tho young Democratic leader made
good opening. The speech subsequent
~ delivered by Foraker exhibited no
Improvement in style over those adj
dresses by him which Powell so severe
ly criticised. 1t was coarse and inflam-
matory throughout, and while it
pleased the partisan element drawn
forth to hear 1t it had little in it calcu-
lated to make an impression upon the
thoughtful and the candid. Chicago